#002 – Legend of the Innkeeper – “Deck Building Strategy”

Intro:  Welcome to the Legend of the Innkeeper.  I’m Vastidious and I’m Ariannwyn.  We’re glad you could join us again for our second episode.

– Talk about who we are.  Jobs, interests, hobbies.  Random fact.

 Updates:

What did you do this week?

We mentioned working with a Hunter deck last week.  How did that go?

 News

1. Curse of Naxxramas Screenshots Leaked

Someone released images last week of what appears to be how Curse of Naxxramas will look.  There were several images shown with each wing separated out with a boss at the end.  They also revealed a card, Kel’Thuzad.  (8 mana 6/8 – Text: He returns all friendly minions to the battlefield that died that turn).  Blizzard asked all the sites to remove the links to the images.

2. Release Date Announced Then Unannounced

Aratil from Blizzard said this week,

“Just wanted to give everyone a head’s up that we are currently targeting to release Curse of Naxxramas during the month of July. Unfortunately, we still have a lot of implementing and bug fixing to get through, so please stay tuned! 

With that said, we are also targeting to reveal pricing details regarding Curse of Naxxramas next week on July 1st, so please keep an eye out for that.”

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/forum/topic/13271477080#13

Then a few hours later he updated this.  Now it’s not going to come out on the 1st.

“I know everyone is really excited for any and all information regarding Naxxramas. We’re doing our best to get it into your hands as soon as possible. However, it turns out we’re actually not going to be quite ready to announce Naxxramas pricing on July 1st as I previously mentioned—we do still want to announce more Naxxramas information soon, but I’m afraid it won’t happen on July 1st. We’ll get the details to you as soon as we have finalized information to share.”

http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/forum/topic/13271477080?page=5#91

3. Season 3 Ended – New Card Back Revealed

So season 3 ended.  How did you do?

The new card back is a Naxxramas card back.  It’s mildly cursed according to the post.  http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/14642095/hearthstone%E2%84%A2-ranked-play-season-4-the-dread-necropolis-7-1-2014

4. Hearthstone Calendar

This week I was looking through a bunch of information about tournaments and competitions and came across this calendar that has most of them listed on it.

Calendar of HearthStone events – https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=d1q45i96sa1djr4c7inpqc1ft0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York

5. Dreamhack Releases Numbers

DreamHack numbers released – 550,000 unique viewers throughout the tournament and during the finals, peaked at 55,000 simultaneous viewers.

http://www.ongamers.com/articles/dreamhack-hearthstone-numbers-are-out-550-000-uniques/1100-1788/

6. Naxxramas Primer

In preparation for the upcoming expansion, Simplexity88 posted a summary of all the bosses in Naxx from World of Warcraft and their special abilities.  http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/29hsn2/naxxramas_boss_overview/